Re: mkisofs, cdrecord, 74min vs 80min CDROM media
Hello,
I suggest you try burning the image on another CD-RW drive.
It is possible that the drive has 'gone bad'.
- Tal
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 02:42:54PM -0500, Allison, Jason A. wrote:
> Looking for info regarding my problem. This is my post at some forums,
> sorry for not wanting to type it all again.
>
>
> What I am using:
> Alpha'a running Digital UNIX 4.0d
> SCSI Yamaha CD-RW
> cdrecord 1.9 w/ packaged mkisofs
>
> I updated from cdrecord 1.6.1 to 1.9
> hoping to solve this problem, but to no luck, here I am.
>
> I am burning iso9660CD CDs. Here are my
> commands:
> /usr/local/bin/mkisofs -a -d -L -l -v -V
> $VLABEL -o /dist/party3rd.img ../party3rd
> /usr/local/bin/cdrecord -v -eject -dev=5,0
> -speed=2 /dist/party3rd.img
>
> Note: The speed is at 2. I lowered that
> hoping to solve the problem, no luck. I am leaving it there to elimate that
> issue.
>
> Background:
> We have been making these CDs for almost a
> year now. I have verified some of the older CDs and they are not having this
> problem. This problem arose when we
> changed media, as far as I can tell (Corporate express doesnt keep the old
> stuff
> around). In the past we used IMATION (old
> 3m) 650 Meg 74min, up to 8x I think. The new IMATION is this 80 min 700
> Meg stuff. No work. So I thought, oh
> simple, get some 74 min 650 stuff. Still not working with our new Verbatim
> 74min
> 650Meg.
>
> Poblems we are seeing:
> Old problem:
> We has an 86 Meg tar file. The tar file
> was being corrupted and I would get I/O errors when I did a tar tvf.
>
> Middle problems:
> Same tar problem as above.
> The directory logicaly after the tar file
> is all messed up. Binary data in bourne shell scripts. Real weird. If I did
> a strings
> load.sh, it wouldnt even show anything,
> all binary data.
>
> Current problems:
> tar problem has seemed to go away.
> diretory after that, the files seem ok,
> but uerf -R is reporting CAM SCSI errors while I do a file * on the
> directory, and it
> takes forever to complete.
>
> Anyone who can give some insight into this
> topic and/or has used these utilities before, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> Possibilites:
> CD-RW going bad.
> mkisofs having problems with such a large
> file. I am going to test expanding that tar file out and recording then.
> Though 2
> files logically before it are 56 and 62
> Meg respectively.
>
> Notes:
> I am not using the -a command anymore, that was removed with the latest
> version of mkisofs i got with cdrecord-1.9.
>
> Also, I noticed with the mkisofs I did just a minute ago (with debug on)
> that it sorted the directories making the last directory /nsr, and the next
> to last directory being netscape. /nsr is the directory with all the errors
> (CAM SCSI errors) and netscape is the directory with the 86 Meg file.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the input,
> Jason Allison
> Northrop Grumman Corp
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